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If employers are just using a college degree as a signaling mechanism for basic skills, they should just ask for high school GPA and SAT score. Those are the p
by vellum 14y ago
If employers are just using a college degree as a signaling mechanism for basic skills, they should just ask for high school GPA and SAT score. Those are the primary criteria colleges use for admissions.
- randomdata 14y agoI expect there are considerably more people who fit the necessary criteria to attend college than who end up as graduates. When you are trying to filter applicants, you usually want to reduce your set, not increase it. Even filtering on college graduates is starting to be less effective due to increasing rates of output from the colleges. In the technology field in particular, we've started to become more interested in hobbies because fewer people have relevant hobbies than degrees.